Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 16 shown for “Scarab Commemorating the King's Marriage to Queen Tiye” — 57 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 13:31 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scarab Commemorating the King's Marriage to Queen Tiye
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

$1 Queen Emma Kaleleonalani design record
Artist not stated in the record · 1883

Scarab Commemorating the Construction of an Artificial Lake
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Souvenir ribbon
Artist not stated in the record · 1901

The Marriage Feast at Cana
Juan de Flandes · ca. 1497

Vase
Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853 · ca. 1909–10

The Journey of the Magi
Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Church Queen ticket from the home of H.C. Anderson
Artist not stated in the record · mid 20th century

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

The Abduction of the Sabine Women
Nicolas Poussin · probably 1633–34

Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Nicolas Poussin · 1658

Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s

The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo
Master of Charles of Durazzo · 1381–82

Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of Olivares
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo · ca. 1636 or later

Portrait medal of Mary Tudor Queen of England (obverse); Allegory of Mary Tudor's Reign (reverse)
Jacopo Nizolla da Trezzo · model 1554 (contemporary cast)

Ellen Maurice (1578–1626)
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger · 1597
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 17 matched · 17 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1781686 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 13:31 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.